Timothy Burke

Want to watch the World Cup? We're here to provide you with the ultimate, comprehensive guide to watching every match of group play—either on a television, computer, or mobile device.

(This guide assumes you are, as is more than 75 percent of our audience, located in the United States.)

You already know that ESPN is the English-language home for the World Cup in the U.S. But that doesn't mean you need a cable or satellite subscription to watch at home. Indeed, every World Cup match will be aired in some way on broadcast television—either on ABC or on the Univision networks. But if you can't be bothered to set up an antenna, we've got all your streaming links below—with an added twist: we've provided links to the live streams for every country's home broadcast, when available. Ian Darke is terrific, but if you'd rather watch a Germany match with German announcers or Australia with Aussie play-by-play, we've got your hookup.

Of course, most of the international streams are region-locked. Tunnelbear provides you a few options for accessing international feeds, but we endorse VyprVPN, which now links you into 36 different countries—including Brazil itself. For countries not available through VyprVPN, you'll need a proxy.

Here's your list of every group-play match, with links to where you can watch it on TV, online, or with hometown streams. All times are Eastern Daylight; we make no guarantees these links will work for you, though we'll try and update them as we can to ones that do.